Author: Cornelia Parker StrattonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
An American Idyll
Author: Cornelia Parker StrattonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
An American Idyll
Author: Cora Slocomb Savorgnan di BrazzàPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
American Idyll
Author: Catherine LiuPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609380517
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A trenchant critique of failure and opportunism across the political spectrum, American Idyll argues that social mobility, once a revered hallmark of American society, has ebbed, as higher education has become a mechanistic process for efficient sorting that has more to do with class formation than anything else. Academic freedom and aesthetic education are reserved for high-scoring, privileged students and vocational education is the only option for economically marginal ones. Throughout most of American history, antielitist sentiment was reserved for attacks against an entrenched aristocracy or rapacious plutocracy, but it has now become a revolt against meritocracy itself, directed against what insurgents see as a ruling class of credentialed elites with degrees from exclusive academic institutions. Catherine Liu reveals that, within the academy and stemming from the relatively new discipline of cultural studies, animosity against expertise has animated much of the Left’s cultural criticism. By unpacking the disciplinary formation and academic ambitions of American cultural studies, Liu uncovers the genealogy of the current antielitism, placing the populism that dominates headlines within a broad historical context. In the process, she emphasizes the relevance of the historical origins of populist revolt against finance capital and its political influence. American Idyll reveals the unlikely alliance between American pragmatism and proponents of the Frankfurt School and argues for the importance of broad frames of historical thinking in encouraging robust academic debate within democratic institutions. In a bold thought experiment that revives and defends Richard Hofstadter’s theories of anti-intellectualism in American life, Liu asks, What if cultural populism had been the consensus politics of the past three decades? American Idyll shows that recent antielitism does nothing to redress the source of its discontent—namely, growing economic inequality and diminishing social mobility. Instead, pseudopopulist rage, in conservative and countercultural forms alike, has been transformed into resentment, content merely to take down allegedly elitist cultural forms without questioning the real political and economic consolidation of powers that has taken place in America during the past thirty years.
American Idyll
Author: Cornelia Stratton ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An American Idyll
Author: Countess di BrazzàPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
An American Idyll
Author: Cornelia Stratton ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
An American Idyll
Author: Brazzà (countess Di)Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020964565
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An American Idyll is a novel that explores the experiences of an Italian aristocrat in America. With detailed descriptions and vivid characters, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in turn-of-the-century American literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
An American Idyll
Author: Cornelia Stratton ParkerPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN: 9781421945248
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
1919. The story of Parker, a liberal academic and a pioneer in the sociology of the Industrial Workers of the World. If you admire strong men and true, if you enjoy biography, if you like love stories, if naiveti appeals to you, if a tale of happiness well told brings you pleasure, then this book belongs on your reading list. It is a book recommended a dozen times, but no one has been able to describe its charm or fascination.
An American Idyll
Author: Cornelia Stratton ParkerPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
1919. The story of Parker, a liberal academic and a pioneer in the sociology of the Industrial Workers of the World. If you admire strong men and true, if you enjoy biography, if you like love stories, if naiveti appeals to you, if a tale of happiness well told brings you pleasure, then this book belongs on your reading list. It is a book recommended a dozen times, but no one has been able to describe its charm or fascination.
American Idyll
Author: Catherine LiuPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609380517
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A trenchant critique of failure and opportunism across the political spectrum, American Idyll argues that social mobility, once a revered hallmark of American society, has ebbed, as higher education has become a mechanistic process for efficient sorting that has more to do with class formation than anything else. Academic freedom and aesthetic education are reserved for high-scoring, privileged students and vocational education is the only option for economically marginal ones. Throughout most of American history, antielitist sentiment was reserved for attacks against an entrenched aristocracy or rapacious plutocracy, but it has now become a revolt against meritocracy itself, directed against what insurgents see as a ruling class of credentialed elites with degrees from exclusive academic institutions. Catherine Liu reveals that, within the academy and stemming from the relatively new discipline of cultural studies, animosity against expertise has animated much of the Left’s cultural criticism. By unpacking the disciplinary formation and academic ambitions of American cultural studies, Liu uncovers the genealogy of the current antielitism, placing the populism that dominates headlines within a broad historical context. In the process, she emphasizes the relevance of the historical origins of populist revolt against finance capital and its political influence. American Idyll reveals the unlikely alliance between American pragmatism and proponents of the Frankfurt School and argues for the importance of broad frames of historical thinking in encouraging robust academic debate within democratic institutions. In a bold thought experiment that revives and defends Richard Hofstadter’s theories of anti-intellectualism in American life, Liu asks, What if cultural populism had been the consensus politics of the past three decades? American Idyll shows that recent antielitism does nothing to redress the source of its discontent—namely, growing economic inequality and diminishing social mobility. Instead, pseudopopulist rage, in conservative and countercultural forms alike, has been transformed into resentment, content merely to take down allegedly elitist cultural forms without questioning the real political and economic consolidation of powers that has taken place in America during the past thirty years.